Well, I tried with the tomatoes. We had a hard freeze last night; 22 at about 3 AM. Even though I covered them well, it wasn’t enough. I have plenty of backups though and the long range forecast into the middle of May looks good.
I sure hope that this didn’t take out the fruit tree crops. I don’t know where the trees were in setting their blossoms and all, but it will be a big hit for some of the growers if they lost their crop for the season.
EEK on the freeze.
I was talking to one of my farmer buddies last night, he’s been out plowing, but the weather is causing him fits.
All the recent rain we’ve had is causing me fits as well, most of my lovely plowed field has to be hoed and/or tilled again because the rain caused weeds........it’s very green in places I haven’t planted anything yet.
Sorry your tomatoes didn’t make it. My dad lost a bunch of tomato plants as well. Good thing you’ve got lots of backups.
I’d like to plant out my tomatoes and other plants soon, but I’m still a little nervous. We’ve had three nights of freezing temps in a row this week. Thankfully it was just in the low 30’s though, not the 20’s. That should be the last of it, but the weather’s been strange lately.
A local orchard in the town I grew up in closed last year after they lost their whole crop. Hopefully the freeze wasn’t deep enough this time to do as much damage.